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czwartek, 3 lipca 2014

The British
Virgin Islands (BVI), is a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean
to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands
archipelago; the remaining islands constitute the US Virgin Islands and the
Spanish Virgin Islands.

Did you know that:
1. The official name of the Territory is still simply the "Virgin
Islands", but the prefix "British" is often used to distinguish
it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the
"Danish West Indies" to "Virgin Islands of the United
States" in 1917.
2. The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin
Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, along with over fifty other smaller islands
and cays. About 15 of the islands are inhabited.
3. National flower is white cedar (tebebuia heterophylla). It is the flower of
the white cedar tree, the territorial tree which is indegenous to the Virgin
Islands and was integral in the development of the Virgin Islands sloop and in
turn, the economy.
4. National bird is turtle dove (zenaida aurta). Tortola is named the land of
the Turtle Dove.